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Insider Voices Human Dimensions of Low Carbon Technology Lowcarbonworks Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, University of Bath lowcarbonworks unlocking sustainable futures lowcarbonworks unlocking sustainable futures Insider Voices Human dimensions of low carbon technology Lowcarbonworks Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, University of Bath. Peter Reason, Principal Investigator Gill Coleman, Senior Action Researcher David Ballard, Originator and Consultant Michelle Williams, Action Researcher Margaret Gearty, Action Researcher Carole Bond, Action Researcher Chris Seeley, Action Researcher Esther Maughan McLachlan, Communications consultant The authors wish to acknowledge the significant contributions to this report of other members of the Lowcarbonworks team Jonathan Aylen, University of Manchester Judith Evans, FRPERC, University of Bristol Nick Morley, Oakdene Hollins Susan Ballard, Alexander Ballard Kate Tate, Lowcarbonworks And of the many participants in the research narratives most of whom are listed in the report. Please also see www.lowcarbonworks.org.uk The research on which this report is based was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council as part of the Carbon Vision Programme. Designed by Positive2. To follow up on this report, please email Professor Peter Reason at [email protected] Please use the material in this document in any way that helps the move to a low carbon future. We would of course appreciate it if you credit our work. Insider voices: Human dimensions of low carbon technology There are many things to do to bring about a sustainable world… Whatever you do, do it humbly. Do it not as an immutable policy, but as an experiment. Use your action, whatever it is, to learn. Meadows et al, 2004 Insider voices Contents Contents Introduction Please click on heading to How to read this report 4 navigate to desired section. Introducing the Lowcarbonworks project 6 Action research 9 Insider voices: Narratives from the field Introduction 16 Ginsters 17 Building green credentials step by step: Changing perceptions of waste in the UK food industry Holsworthy anaerobic digestion 27 Learning on the hoof: How a pioneering farming community brought anaerobic digestion to the UK CompAir Airworx 37 The fourth utility? Transforming compressed air supply from product to service Air Cycle integrated heating and cooling 47 The challenge of developing niche activities Thurulie eco-factory 59 ‘A wonderful experience’ Southampton District Energy Scheme 71 Warm waters meet a steady flow of collaboration and ambition Theories Introductory comments 86 Lock-in 87 Social shaping of technology 90 Sociotechnical transition framework 92 Power and critical thinking 95 Relational practice 97 Theoretical reflections 101 Contents Tools Complementarities matrix 106 Organisational responsiveness 112 Recommendations Ten ingredients for low carbon change 120 Key issues for policy makers and research funders 122 Glossaries and references General glossary 126 Technical glossary 127 References 128 How to read this report How to read this report For over five years, we have been exploring one of the important routes to a low carbon future: what is it that encourages and inhibits the adoption of low carbon technologies by business and local authority organisations? This report gives an account of our exploration which we hope will be of practical interest to organisations, to policy makers, to those undertaking research and those who fund such research. Document key We have designed this report to be read in different ways by different audiences. You can read from start to finish, beginning with the framing introduction and action research methodology outline, then the narratives, on to the theory and finally to tools and recommendations. However, you may prefer to find your own way through in a different order. Direct quote You could get straight into the thick of it with one or more Narratives or Insider Voices. As action researchers we have attempted to get as ‘close to the knitting’ as we can, working with people involved in the strategies and implementation of a Publicly available material lower carbon pathway, at every organisational level. Each narrative contains boxes which cross reference to theories and tools, and highlight our own reflections as researchers. Researcher reflection The narratives may lead you to look more closely at Theories. When people talk about reducing carbon emissions, they usually talk about technologies or economics. There is a common assumption that innovation moves from basic research to applied research to technology development and diffusion. But recent Link to ingredient for low carbon change research and theorising shows this model is misleading. Innovation does not take a straight line path like this, and at least two other issues are of crucial importance in low carbon initiatives: the wider systemic context in which the initiative is situated, Link to theory and tools and the human relationships that build capacity to drive the innovation. We offer summaries of key theories and link these back to the narratives to show them in practice. This is not a formal academic literature review, but written for a lay audience, although we have provided additional references for further reading. Link to narrative Our theory section is closely related to Tools, where we offer two different ways to consider what it takes for an organisation to move along a low carbon path. Key also available on The complementarities matrix provides a systematic map for assessing the back cover flap alignment or otherwise of diverse opportunities for change. The organisational responsiveness framework provides a way of assessing the capacity and readiness of an organisation to respond to the challenges of a low carbon future. You may of course go straight to our Recommendations. We have drawn together narratives and theories to propose Ten ingredients for low carbon change in organisations and Key issues for policy makers and research funders. We very much hope that if you start here you will be drawn back to some of the narratives, because there is so much to be learned from how each situation uniquely unfolds. We have provided a key which shows how the various sections link (opposite and on fold out flap on back cover); a general and a technical glossary and references to further reading. 4 Introduction If people within regimes resist regime change, whether consciously or not, and if the landscape is largely resistant to conscious attempts to change it, where does transformative change most often begin? Insider voices Introducing the Lowcarbonworks project As often with research – and life – we have not ended up where we expected. The original aim of the Lowcarbonworks project was to explore what it was that enabled and hindered the adoption of low carbon technologies. We wanted to work closely with people in business organisations (to which we soon added local authorities); with academics developing low carbon technologies; and with economists to explore the relationship between the broad sweep of technological development and investment cycles and the detailed day to day management practices involved in introducing low carbon technologies in organisational contexts. We were sure that the development of a low carbon future was more than a technological issue and that there would be an important relationship between macro trends – technological, economic and political – and micro practices of managing change. We proposed that moments of potential transformation exist in the wider economic and technological context and we wanted to learn how to seize and respond to such moments in a creative fashion. In retrospect, what we set out to do was hugely ambitious and difficult to achieve in practice. However, our project has been enormously fruitful, even with a less ambitious scope. We have seen at close hand the intricate relationships between a variety of opportunities for low carbon change and the responses of organisations at formal and informal levels. We have had the privilege of being close to major projects where significant carbon reductions have been achieved; and we have witnessed the struggles and difficulties of skilled and well-intentioned people to make change where conditions are unfavourable. In this report we offer accounts of what we have learned about noticing, understanding and working with the unique and distinctive qualities of each low carbon technology project. No theoretical model can do justice to the unique set of social, organisational, technological and economic factors at play in a particular change environment at a particular time. We review some current theories which explore technological change; and we bring other theories which have helped us understand the more intimate details of working for low carbon change. We provide stories of the projects we have explored to knit the theory back into actual practice, and bring to life the distinctive qualities of each situation. These narratives are not simply ‘case studies’ or abstract ‘best practice’. They are lively records of the insider voices – practitioners and researchers – in the thick of the action, trying to make low carbon change happen as best they can. We offer some general learning and guidelines for those engaged in low carbon initiatives; and also for policy makers and research funding bodies. Introducing the Lowcarbonworks project Research assumptions The challenge is not the technical We set out on this research with five core assumptions: feasibility of a low carbon
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